It’s interesting watching the re-runs of classic MOTD & The Big Match games on BT sports that none of the players had tattoos. These days, it seems all of the players look like they spend every spare minute at the […]

Casting my mind back to 1986, I believe the following lyrics were considered to be borderline racist as they could be read to be anti black music:

“Burn down the disco
Hang the blessed DJ
Because the music that […]

Trivia alert – both Scott Walker & Paddy McAloon have written songs about Jesse Presley.

OFITN is on Britbox, so is unlikely to be shown on BBC4.

I’m glad it isn’t just me. I never got what all the fuss was about.

There are quite a few videos on YT created by people that bait the scammers, make them hang on as long as possible, basically screw with them. Most of them prey on the old and/or vulnerable, and will gladly milk […]

well, if you’re going to include US versions, then that’s a whole other barrel of monkeys right there.

From the ‘will this do?’ artwork, to the song titles, it looks more like something from The Onion than Amazon.

In Zappa fan circles, these crappy extras are known as ‘punishment’ tracks, as opposed to ‘bonus’ tracks.

The Associate’s first album (The Affectionate Punch) was reissued a few years later with an almost totally different selection of versions and/or mixes of the songs.

I agree, and they didn’t even use the single version (which isn’t available on CD on a commercial release). If they were going to use it, why not at the start, where at least from a timeline POV it fits. Also, if […]

If you connect the SACD player to a suitable receiver via HDMI, I believe this passes the bitstream.

I also recall that the CD version was sometimes available in shops before the vinyl version – sometimes up to 2 weeks of a gap.

Aimee Mann’s first 2 solo albums were never released on vinyl.

WRT the emptiness you describe, I have heard the mono mix is the one to go for.

Is that the gig recorded by Peter Wolf that snuck out officially for about 5 minutes a few years ago?

I have all those versions, plus the boxed set of 7″ singles that came with a peacock feather. I’m really looking forward to seeing what SW can do with this album.

L&WR used to really annoy me until I heard the Anthology version, which is just the fabs, and I realised just how great a song it is. The ‘stripped’ version shows how good the band, especially Macca, were, apart […]

It may have been on R2R tape? Pre-release?

Great article, and I will henceforth on the (very) rare occasion they arise in conversation not use the definitive article, but for me they are irredeemable. You know the old saying about taking an instant dislike […]